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By greg on April 2, 2003 8:16 AM

Once in a while, I'm standing here, doing something. And I think, "What in the world am I doing here?" It's a big surprise.

-- A Confession (May 16, 2001, interview with the New York Times), from Hart Seely's piece on Slate, "The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld,"

... Let me have no friends or companions But a wine-flask and a book, That I may avoid all association With the deceitful denizens of the world. If I lift my skirt above the dust of the world I shall tower above all in total independence, Like a lofty cypress...

-- excerpted from The Ghazals of Hafiz, works of the great 14th century Persian poet, translated by A.J Alston.

Since 2001 here at greg.org, I've been blogging about the creative process—my own and those of people who interest me. That mostly involves filmmaking, art, writing, research, and the making thereof.

Many thanks to the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Program for supporting greg.org that time.

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